SB922 • 2025

Requires employers to distribute to food service industry employees the tips received from credit card transactions within 24 hours after the credit card transaction is processed.

Labor

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Senator Smith DB
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Requires employers to distribute to food service industry employees the tips received from credit card transactions within 24 hours after the credit card transaction is processed.

Digest: The Act requires credit card tips to be given to certain employees within 24 hours.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act requires credit card tips to be given to certain employees within 24 hours.
(Flesch Readability Score: 61.8).
Requires employers to distribute to food service industry employees the tips received from credit card transactions within 24 hours after the credit card transaction is processed.
Relating to: Relating to the payment of tips received by employees in the food service industry.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 Senate
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-21 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.
2025-01-21 Senate
Referred to Labor and Business.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act requires credit card tips to be given to certain employees within 24 hours. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8).
Requires employers to distribute to food service industry employees the tips received from credit card transactions within 24 hours after the credit card transaction is processed.
Relating to: Relating to the payment of tips received by employees in the food service industry.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 922
Sponsored by Senator SMITH DB
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: The Act requires credit card tips to be given to certain employees within 24 hours.
(Flesch Readability Score: 61.8).
Requires employers to distribute to food service industry employees the tips received from credit
card transactions within 24 hours after the credit card transaction is processed.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the payment of tips received by employees in the food service industry; amending ORS
653.035.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
ORS 653.035 is amended to read:
653.035. (1) Employers may deduct from the minimum wage to be paid employees under ORS
653.025, 653.030 or 653.261[ ,] the fair market value of lodging, meals or other facilities or services
furnished by the employer for the private benefit of the employee.
(2) Employers may include commission payments to employees as part of the applicable minimum
wage for any pay period in which the combined wage and commission earnings of the employee will
comply with ORS 653.010 to 653.261. In any pay period where the combined wage and commission
payments to the employee do not add up to the applicable minimum wage under ORS 653.010 to
653.261, the employer shall pay the minimum rate as prescribed in ORS 653.010 to 653.261.
(3) Employers, including employers regulated under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, may
not include any amount received by employees as tips in determining the amount of the minimum
wage required to be paid by ORS 653.010 to 653.261.
(4) Whenever an employee in the food service industry receives a tip from a credit card
transaction, the employer shall distribute the tip amount to the employee within 24 hours
after the credit card transaction is processed.
NOTE: Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [ italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 3773